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South Dakota Division of Insurance
United States · Insurance market profile
South Dakota has its own insurance supervisory authority, the South Dakota Division of Insurance. This profile brings together its regulatory contacts, NAIC research and the companies recorded as domiciled here in our directory.
Pierre is the capital. A US state since 1889, South Dakota is part of a state-based insurance system: a company's home jurisdiction and the markets where it is authorised to operate are different facts.
Within this directory's South Dakota domicile records, General (Non-life) is the largest recorded class, with 6 entities. This describes the composition of our listings, not premium market share.
Partial directory coverage. These counts are not the total number of insurers licensed in South Dakota.
Appointed office
South Dakota Division of Insurance
The department is the starting point for checking an insurer's authority, finding consumer assistance and following local regulatory announcements. Leadership details can change; use the official office link for the current incumbent.
Commissioner's office ↗Visit the insurance department ↗Start with the legal company name on your policy and its NAIC company number, where available. A familiar brand may represent several separately licensed companies.
Use the department's insurer lookup to check authority in South Dakota. For complaint assistance, the NAIC directory links to each jurisdiction's department and complaint channel.
NAIC Consumer Insurance Search ↗Department contacts & complaints ↗
The market in focus
“The Division of Insurance has made available online South Dakota market share information for 2024.”
South Dakota Division of Insurance · Spring 2025 Newsletter ↗
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners supports the 56 US insurance jurisdictions with shared data and regulatory coordination. The local insurance department remains the authority for questions about a company's licence in South Dakota.
Reporting year 2024 · NAIC state report card
Read the report's definitions before comparing states: premiums, insurer counts and directory domicile records measure different things. Figures retain their reporting year and should not be read as live totals.
Read the South Dakota NAIC report (PDF) ↗NAIC state report cards provide a route into premium trends, insurer populations and the resources of insurance departments.
State report cards & publications ↗A group may contain companies domiciled in several jurisdictions. The NAIC lead-state report identifies the coordinating state for group supervision.
NAIC lead-state report ↗The Uniform Certificate of Authority Application resources collect state-specific requirements for insurance company applications.
UCAA state charts ↗NAIC market research reviewed 26 September 2026. State identity and office-selection facts come from the state reference dataset dated 23 September 2026; insurer counts are calculated from the directory's register records. Photographs illustrate places, not insurer or regulator offices.
| Company | Class | Parent / group | Ownership | Regulator | Verification | Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bond Safeguard Insurance Company NAIC 27081; TDI licence 5715; domicile SD (foreign to Texas); type: Casualty; structure: Stockholder; licensed 1992/06/16 | GGeneral (Non-life) | NAIC group 3219 | Domestic private | NAIC / state DOIs | Partial | — |
| DAKOTA TRUCK UNDERWRITERS NAIC 34924; TDI licence 95773; domicile SD (foreign to Texas); type: Reciprocal; structure: n/a; licensed 2003/02/14; Texas-specific licence class | GGeneral (Non-life) | NAIC group 1332 | Mutual / cooperative | NAIC / state DOIs | Partial | 61 Confidence: Low |
| SUN SURETY INSURANCE COMPANY NAIC 10909; TDI licence 95837; domicile SD (foreign to Texas); type: Casualty; structure: Stockholder; licensed 2003/10/13 | GGeneral (Non-life) | No NAIC group code provided | Domestic private | NAIC / state DOIs | Partial | — |
| Surety Bonding Company of America NAIC 24047; TDI licence 94354; domicile SD (foreign to Texas); type: Casualty; structure: Stockholder; licensed 1994/07/29 | GGeneral (Non-life) | NAIC group 0218 | Domestic private | NAIC / state DOIs | Partial | — |
| Universal Surety of America NAIC 13200; TDI licence 6043; domicile SD (foreign to Texas); type: Casualty; structure: Stockholder; licensed 1984/06/06 | GGeneral (Non-life) | NAIC group 0218 | Domestic private | NAIC / state DOIs | Partial | 76 Confidence: Low |
| WESTERN SURETY COMPANY NAIC 13188; TDI licence 91150; domicile SD (foreign to Texas); type: Casualty; structure: Stockholder; licensed 1949/07/22 | GGeneral (Non-life) | NAIC group 0218 | Domestic private | NAIC / state DOIs | Partial | 92 Confidence: Low |
| Investors Preferred Life Insurance Company NAIC 15313; TDI licence 13766812; domicile SD (foreign to Texas); type: Life, Accident or Health; structure: Stockholder; licensed 2024/09/10 | LLife | NAIC group 5086 | Domestic private | NAIC / state DOIs | Partial | 72 Confidence: Low |
No insurers match that filter.
Popularity is an estimate of how often people search Google for each insurer, from 0 to 100; the bars show how confident the estimate is. Not a rating of the insurer. How the index works
An insurer’s domicile is the state or territory where it is incorporated, and that jurisdiction’s regulator is its primary supervisor. Domicile here comes from the register rows: the Texas Department of Insurance register records each company’s state of domicile, and a captive on the Vermont captive register is domiciled in Vermont. A state’s list is therefore the insurers in this directory that call it home, not its regulator’s own register of every insurer it licenses.
To see where a company is licensed, use the NAIC’s national search, which covers every state: NAIC Consumer Insurance Search
Regulator details, nicknames and mottos were checked against the regulators’ own sites and public references on 23 Sept 2026. Flags are public-domain artwork. This is reference information, not register data.